How to toggle between vim buffer and command terminal in vim?@Adrian - I don't understand what you mean by "Console" in that case. You'll have to use more standard terminology, as what you asked just plain doesn't make sense. "Console" has a somewhat specific meaning in the context of X11 interfaces, but as far as I know, "Console" doesn't mean anything specific with respect to vim.

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How to protect against data leak?@Gilles - I'm afraid that in the USA, which is what roaima asked about, "intellectual property" is not a legal term. Lawyers may informally conflate patents, trade marks, patents and trade secrets into "intellectual property", but it doesn't mean much legally. Lawyers may claim that copying an idea is theft, too, but that doesn't make it theft. There are specific court cases in US law that say otherwise: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowling_v._United_States_%281985%29

Mar18

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How to protect against data leak?@roaima - No, I do not. There's copyright infringement, patent infringement and something related to trade secrets. None of these are theft, in a legal or ethical sense. And the phrase "Intellectual Property" is itself misleading, as none of copyright, patent, trade secret, trade mark or trade dress are "property" in any sense of the word "property" except the most sloppy and childish usage.

Mar18

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How to protect against data leak?You are aware that this situation really isn't "theft"? Since you and your boss aren't deprived of the use of the copied file, nothing has been "stolen". So, this reduces to the unwanted copying problem that the RIAA and MPAA have been trying to solve for years, unsuccessfully.

Mar17

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Quick boot for desktop Linux?I have no experience with Linux Mint, but the start-stuff-at-boot system makes a difference. I went from Slackware 12 to Arch linux (pre-systemd), and saw a huge speedup in boot on my laptop. Slackware uses an old school BSD scripted startup, don't remember what Arch used to use. When Arch moved to systemd, my laptop got another speedup in boot time. So: check to see what Linux Mint uses to start things up at boot time. It can make a difference.

Mar16

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Do I have a dead NIC?@unkle_junky - I'd say you might have a dead NIC. If it's a PCI or PCIe card, re-seat it after cleaning contacts. Try a different cable - they go bad randomly. Try a different port on the router. If all that fails, you've got a dead NIC.

Mar15

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Do I have a dead NIC?Consider running mii-tool and ethtool on the interfaces to see what they say. Don't ignore anything that they say that doesn't make sense: see if you can reconcile the apparent nonsense with reality.

Mar14

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What is an inode?@DBS - interesting thought, dragging Russel's Paradox into Unix filesystems. Alas, "everything is a file" only went so far, rather like sets in NBG set theory giving way to classes at some point, and then, only in user land. In the kernel, not everything is a file.

Mar13

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What is an inode?@DBS - If you're clever and careful, you could probably open the "raw device", /dev/sda1 or whatever, find the on-disk data, and modify it without touching the file's actual data. Other than that, the chmod command changes inode without accessing file data.

Terminal with image supportYou can see a windowing system with in-band signalling in the "MGR" windowing system: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ManaGeR . This worked as late as 1994 on a Sun SPARCStation-10 As far as a terminal running programs, that what the basis of Sun Micrososystem's NeWS system: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS As many have noted, everything has been thought of once, the problem is to think of it again.

Feb26

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keep getting broken pipe when sshThis smells like it might be network problems, like maybe an unreliable NAT on a router or something. Can you detail the network setup between the two machines?

Feb9

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Characters visible in vi, but not in cat.@sree - cat just writes bytes (not characters!) to stdout. The way you invoked cat, stdout was the TTY of the terminal emulator. That TTY or the terminal emulator chose not to show the ASCII-Nul bytes and confused you.

unix system with malwareThey may not be required for PCI DSS compliance now - I saw them in a preliminary version in 2006. I haven't had a reason to read something that boring in a while.

Jan23

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unix system with malwareI'll confirm the last paragraph: Linux anti-virus only runs where corporate policy is rigid and stupid enough to require it. At least early revs of what became the PCI DSS had level 1 merchants running anti-virus on all servers, no exceptions, so such policies do exist.